forest creature

Forest Creature are a duo from Sheffield. They produce something which (although I hate to describe music in such flimsy unimaginitive terms) sounds a little like Black Dice circa Miles Of Smiles playing Fuck Buttons covers. By this I mean there are colossal swathes of pulsing static and toneless fuzz, with the clicks, bleeps and clatters of Black Dice along with the droning euphoria of Fuck Buttons.

“Learning To Dance” was recorded with Patrick Derbyshire this year, and carries some of those west coast noise trademarks. However, despite the easy parallels they generate bruising viscous noise, supported by tight incessant beats and draped in the bloops of robot chit-chat, smothered with gravelly feedback.

Forest Creature – Learning To Dance

Their live performance was, I must admit, more engrossing than this, because it was louder, in an enclosed space, and therefore more intense and unforgiving. They gave me this CD for free, which was nice, and it simply must be turned up deafeningly loud. If you want to buy anything by them you can get the things (mostly on cassette) through Blackest Rainbow.